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Drums start at $440 + $30 shipping US. Exchanges may be made within 30 days. Very sorry, no refunds.

Many of these new drums have come about from successful customer suggestions, usually people wanting to try a new type of skin while keeping the advantages of my rims and tuning system.

After years of work, finally a drum that requires only an opposable thumb to tune. (Sorry, you other living beings out there!) All my drums now use use my A-Tune System™ (designed by me) — just three pressure points to tune using a simple wheel. Combined with a Pre-Timpani Calfskin Head™ (designed by me) to your specifications of thickness and flexibility, this drum is the apex of playability and tuning ease, not to mention its beautiful blonde finish.

I worked on it for many months and determined that the best way to go is to have it with only one highly variable option, not cosmetic (all dimensions, and color of the frame, to be the same), but a wide range of skin thickness, and only as a translucent calfskin. As with DaRedDrum™, just let me know what sound you are after and I will pick the skin. To my knowledge, I am the only drum maker that picks out a skin based on where you live (different skins do better in different climates). Get in touch so I can build you the drum of our dreams.

For those who want an extremely thin calfskin (top end) in any size, well … I will do that now also. I hate tape so, for the thin skins only, I am loading the inside of the drum with an applied translucent flexible coating of my own concoction. With calfskin, I can hand mill (no machine, ever!) to the exact thickness you want in millimeters.

My hand-crafted, original-design drums possess qualities that you will not find together in any other drum. The result: An exceptionally musical and responsive instrument. Drums start at $440 + $30 shipping US.

Due to popular demand, I have added a thing or two and brought back drums that I have not made in 10 years.

16-inch

14-inch

12-inch

The “look and feel” of Albert Alfonso bodhráns (brass on brass interior plus brass tacks on hair on the exterior), the Albert A-Tune System, and Albert’s Pre-Timpani Calfskin Heads are protected under trademark law.